I was only a child when Dr Carleton Gajdusek, Michael Alpers and Shirley Lindenbaum conducted research on kuru in the South Fore. They patrolled around the villages and saw how many of our people were dying of kuru and the number of orphans in our villages. My late brother, Mr Animo Kaguya, was the only member of our family involved in the early research on kuru; he assisted in carrying equipme...